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Notes about Phyllis Ann (Lang) Moffitt Written by her daughter Lynne Frances Moffitt : 2011 (Edited by Phyllis)Her family is the most important thing to her. She always says shedearly loves her children, delights in the grandchildren but the bestare her great grandchildren! This is for her 5 Great Grandchildren sothey too can know and remember their GG. (She wasn?t always old youknow)Phyllis was born on 4/4/26 in Wheeling, WV on Easter Sunday becausealthough her parents lived in St. Clairsville, O, the hospital wasjust across the Ohio river in Wheeling. Her parents were CatherineElizabeth (Schrock) Lang and Chauncey Philip Lang. She had two oldersisters, Catherine Elizabeth Lang and Barbara Jane Lang Goodman, bothwho were born in Ohio as were her parents. In her immediate family sheand her Granddaughter Christina are the only ones born in WV.Story of Phyllis? birth is because her Mother?s labor was prolonged, anurse left a leaf of lettuce under the bed so that the Easter Bunnywould be enticed to come and bring the baby . It worked as in themorning Phyllis was there and the lettuce was gone ! She was namedPhyllis after her Dad?s middle name. For years she thought she Easterbunny brought her.The Lang family moved to State College when Phyllis was two when herDad accepted a position in the Agriculture Extension Dept. at PennState College.She went to the very first nursery school started on the campus atPenn State. And started first grade at age 5 .. there were not therestrictions then that there are now and so was always one of theyoungest student in her class all the way through school. Her sisterswere 6 and 7 years older and her Mom was probably tired of being tieddown by a youngster.They say ?It takes a village to raise a child? and Phyllis was livingproof of that ! She was the kind of little girl who would ?forget? towear her coat but dragged it along behind her, and she loved jumpingin mud puddles. Her Mother always knew what she had done because theneighbors would have phoned and alerted her Mom before Phyllis made ithome. Well it made for some interesting Halloweens when it waspay-back time!As a child Phyllis had several major illnesses. At 4 she had whoopingcough and measles at the same time and was not expected to live. Thedoctor had 2 other children patients also very sick at the time butcomforted her family by sitting by her bedside as he thought Phylliswas the one who would not survive. In those days in the sickroom theywould closed all the curtains and keep the room dark. Her mother,Catherine, decided that her daughter was not gong to die in the darkand opened all the blinds to let the light in ! Whether it was thelight or the comfort of the Dr. by her bedside Phyllis was only one ofthose sick children to live.At age 8 Phyllis had rheumatic fever and had to spend all that summerin bed recovering. All their lives her Mother and sisters believedPhyllis had a weak heart and should be sheltered. Phyllis resistedtheir attempts to make her an invalid and ignored their suggestions totake it easy.She graduated from State College High School in 1943. And she startedto date her future husband, John Samuel Moffitt. John was a year aheadof her in school but they first started to date after taking an oneact play to a competition in Shippensburg, Pa. He was the studentdirector of the play she was in. They were both members of theThespians Club in HS.John was drafted and went into the Army in 1943. They decided to elopeand were married March 15, 1944. But since she was a month shy of her18th birthday her Mother had to go to Philadelphia also to sign forPhyllis ! She wore a stylish purple suit to get married in. Phylliswas already a high school graduate and attending Penn State College.They spent the weekend together before Phyllis went back home tocollege and John back to the army ASTP program he was in. Wheneverquestioned by her children about why they were married so young,Phyllis always answered, ?It was the war you know.?John was never sent overseas during WWII and Phyllis eventually quitcollege and moved to be with him when he entered Jefferson MedicalSchool in Philadelphia after he had done his pre-med at Johns Hopkins.In those days most young ladies became teachers, secretaries ornurses. Phyllis was enrolled in Home Ec. in early childhood education.Her daughter Lynne always said when people say young girls aren?ttaught how to be a mother ?My Mother was!?While John was in medical school, Phyllis worked as a dietician andthen in an Endocrinology Lab. Neither of which she had had any formaltraining for but ?It was the war you know.? VE Day was in June thatyear with VJ Day in August but John was still in the Army when hestarted medical school and the GI Bill paid for the other years.Their first child, John, was born at the end of his dad?s second yearat medical school.During her pregnancy Phyllis developed that old nasty heart murmur (which it turned out only showed up during pregnancies ) and washospitalized for 6 or 7 weeks at Jeff. As a perk of being a medicalstudent?s wife she was seen by all the best Jeff doctors who wouldmake their grand rounds everyday. Much to their surprise the murmurdisappeared immediately after delivery. At the time she was advisednot to have any more children because of the murmur. As usual Phyllisresisted any advice that would restrict her life so she went on tohave two more children. Lynne was born in Pottsville, Pa when John wasdoing an OB residency and Judy was born in Bellefonte, Pa. when Johnwas in private practice in Centre Hall, Pa.To back up alittle John did his internship at Walter Reed ArmyHospital in D.C. and the Korean War started. He was sent to Japan andthen to head a MASH unit in Korea. And Phyllis and Johnny moved backto State College with her parents. And she then took this opportunityto finish college, graduating in 1952, but electing to be part of herclass of 1947. In college she played in the concert Blue Band ( nowomen were allowed to be in the marching band at that time), joinedthe Delta Gamma sorority and got her BS in Home Economics in EarlyChildhood and Family Relationships. While John was still overseas shedirected a nursery school for the Episcopal Church. One perp wasJohnny attended free. And she acted as advisor to the Delta Gammassince she thought she was too experienced to just be a regular member.Phyllis was a somewhat indifferent student throughout HS and her first3 years of college. It was only after returning to college as a wifeand mother that she became an excellent student and made the honorroll her last two semesters. But she could always make her childrenlaugh by recalling some early college mishaps. She set the ChemistryLab on fire when she pushed a Bunsen burner back out her way but undera wood cabinet. The graduate assistant panicked and ran out with therest of the class and Phyllis had to put the fire out herself ! Buthaving learned very little chemistry she passed the course. She alwayssuspected it was so she wouldn?t have another opportunity to burn thelab down. She told about sitting for 2 hrs. in a final for Econ.because the only question she could answer was the law of supply anddemand and she was too embarrassed to turn it in and leave early.However she passed that class too for some odd reason. Her psychprofessor was the husband of the Delta Gamma advisor and the firstquestion he asked was ?Who there was a DG?? obviously he gavepreference to them ! Because her father was a professor many of herteachers knew him well and that old ?It takes a village et al? kickedin again and there was little that she did that didn?t get back to herparents. Lesson taught to her children was once when a prof. asked whoneeded an A in the class she didn?t raise her hand. Those who ?needed?the A raise their hands but Phyllis wasn?t smart enough to do that.Phyllis played the flute in HS and college and was a pretty good fluteplayer with a beautiful tone. In those days only men were in the PennState Marching band but due to The War ( The Greatest Generation) theconcert band didn?t march but played at the football games in theirplace.When Judith started school in Westchester, Il. Phyllis startedsubstituting in the schools there. In order to get teachingcredentials she went one summer to Chicago Teachers College whileJohnny, Lynne and Judy spent the summer with their grandparents inState College.When the family moved to Berkeley Co. she went to the local schoolboard to see if they ever needed substitutes and they convinced her orperhaps coerced her into taking a teaching job at Hooge St. Schoolteaching first grade. She had 40 students with no aides to help butshe and the children bonded and she had 4 good years there. To get allthe proper teaching credentials she took classes at Shepherd Collegeand Shippensburg College .. that was now her 4th college!A good friend talked her into taking the FSEE exam, needed in thosedays for Federal employment. She took it somewhat as a lark as shealways felt ?math challenged? and was sure she wouldn?t have a highenough score for Federal employment. Much to her surprise both IRS andthe VA offered her a job and she took the job with IRS NationalComputer Center. At that time NCC was on the VA land. She was acomputer operator although she spent very little time running acomputer but instead worked in Production Control (who in those daysscheduled the work for the computers) and eventually was selected tobe the Training and Public Affairs officer. She remembers theexcitement when Dan Rathers visited NCC and she escorted him around.Working there was very convenient as our family had quarters at the VAthen before buying a house on Van Clevesville road right across fromthose facilities.She loved her role as Mother and took it very seriously, never misseda football game of John?s, either when he was a player or coach; nor aplay in which Lynne or Judy were in at MHS. There is a no moreimportant job then being a momIn the late 1960s and early1970s Phyllis became an environmentalactivist helping to found the first Berkeley Co. Environmental Counselalong with Ginny Reisenweber. They collected recycling materials oncea month with help from volunteers. Recycling wasn?t a big deal inthose days and eventually they hard a hard time finding someplace totake the material for recycling.In the 1990s Phyllis and Norma Finfrock were co-chairs of Read AloudWV . They recruited and trained volunteers to read to children inclassrooms. Phyllis read at Tuscarora and Burke Street schools andoccasionally at the Public Library. Eventually her cardiac problemforced her to stop training readers for Read Aloud and reading inclassrooms, much to her dismay. She always felt that sharing the loveof reading with children was the most important work she was everinvolved in.In 1986 Phyllis had her first heart attack and took a medicaldisability retirement. In 1990 she had a triple by-pass at Georgetownand eventually has had implanted a defibrillator/pacemaker.Phyllis belonged to The League of Women Voters as long as there wasone in Berkeley Co, serving as President several times and acting as amoderator for the League?s political forums until they became sopopular that the radio station and newspaper decided to hold them.She also is a PEO (Poppa Eats Out) and again serving as presidentseveral times. And of course a member of Travel Club which wasstarted in 1904 in Martinsburg. Again serving as President and onvarious other committees.Belief in God and what he?ll do for you if you?re a believer is verystrong in Phyllis. She was raised in St. Paul?s Methodist EpiscopalChurch in State College and has been a Methodist all her life. Here inBerkeley Co. she first attended Trinity Methodist Church where sheserved on the Board of Trustees, finance committee, and worked withthe homeless before she transferred her membership to BedingtonU.M.Church. She feels she has found a real Church home there with aloving and caring congregation. She occasionally likes to go to Mt.Wesley U M Church when Reese and Reagan are part of the service.Her interest are many with books, music and bridge heading the list.

Phyllis married Dr. John Samuel Moffitt on 15 Mar 1944 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA. John was born on 26 Sep 1924 in Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 24 Aug 1992 in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Lindsay Craig Moffitt
2. Lynne Frances Moffitt
3. Judith Ann Moffitt

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920 census. Clay, Montgomery, Ohio. Chauncey Lang (teacher, public school), his wife Catherine and baby daughter Catherine roomed with the Finbock family.



1930 Federal Census. State College, Centre, Pennsylvania

Chauncey is listed as C. P. Lang, head of household and a teacher at Penn State. Then Mrs. C, C.E., B. J, and Phyllis A as wife and daughters are listed. In addition, a cousin Gretchen Buckio is listed. Gretchen was also listed in 1930 on her parents? (Frank and Effie Buckio) census in Woodsfield, Monroe, Ohio that year. Gretchen was attending Penn State after starting college in Ohio as her parents were trying to break her up with her future husband. While in school she lived with her cousins the Langs.



1940 census. State College, Centre, Pennsylvania. The household consists of Chauncey (head, assistant instructor, college), his wife Katherine, and their three daughters, Katherine, Barbara, and Phyllis. In addition are two young women who were secretaries at the college who were listed as roomers in the household. In order to afford their mortgage, Chauncey and Catherine always rented out the two bedrooms and bath on the first floor to students or secretaries.



The Daily News, Huntingdon, PA. Saturday, May 25, 1963. p8

Thirty-two members and guests of the Saxton Women?s Club attended the annual spring dinner meeting, Tuesday, May 21, at the Walnut Room, Kelly?s Korner, Huntingdon?.

The guest speakers of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Lang of State College. Mr. Lang gave a short introduction explaining how he and Mrs. Lang had attended the ?First World?s Agricultural Fair? at New Delhi, India, working especially with the 4-H Clubs. He then showed a series of colored slide taken at the Fair and also one of Nepal. He and Mrs. Lang gave interesting sidelights on their experiences in India. A display of brass articles, jewelry, and saris which the Langs brought back with them attracted much interest.



Weirton Daily Times (WV); Wednesday, January 7, 1970; p24

Smaller Beer Can Rings Requested

State College, Pa. (UPI)?Mayor Chauncey Lang said Tuesday he has requested beer can manufacturers to change the size of the cap rings on their cans

Lang complained more than 800 beer can rings were inserted in parking meters in the month of December in this borough, close to the Pennsylvania State University.

He said the rings are the size of a nickel.

Chauncey married Catherine Elizabeth Schrock on 30 May 1918. Catherine (daughter of William Phillip Schrock and Bertha Estella Eicher) was born on 14 Jan 1898 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA; died on 14 Mar 1991 in Manatee County, Florida, USA; was buried in Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lewis married Sarah Clarissa Dyer on 10 Nov 1893 in Monroe County, Ohio, USA. Sarah (daughter of Phillip Dyer and Adelia Ann Craig) was born on 2 Sep 1865 in Monroe County, Ohio, USA; died on 7 Jul 1954 in Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Bertha Estella Eicher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~langlentz/pafg08.htm#576

BIOGRAPHY:
http://members.aol.com/Rhenthorn1/fedyock.htm
YOCKEY-LANG FAMILY - 1st Installment
YOCKEY-LANG families; My grandmother was Catharine Louise Lang Burkhart, and she was the daughter of Michael Lang and Elizabeth Yockey. He was a brewer and also one of the early members of St. Paul's Evangelical Church on south Main St. According to Hardesty's HISTORICAL HAND ATLAS OF MONROE CO. he was a leading farmer in Centre township and an extensive raiser of stock, beside[s] his brewing activities. He was born in Alsace, Germany April 11, 1818 and married in Pittsburgh, PA. Oct. 18, 1841 to Elizabeth Yockey, a native of Rumbach, Germany, who was born April 5, 1821. Their children were Margaret E. (married to a man named Rose) who was born in Pittsburgh April 25, 1842, and resided in 1882 in Riverside, Iowa; John H. born Pitts. PA. Sept. 6, 1843 - he married Martha Okey; Anna M. (Schumacher) born Fayette, Allegheny Co., PA. July 13, 1847; William b. July 10, 1849 - married Margaret Henthorne; Louis P. b. Oct. 26, 1851 - married Clara; Charlotte Fredericka Elizabetha Sophia born Aug. 26, 1855 who never married and was always called Aunt Lot by all her relatives and friends; and my grandmother, Catharine Louis[e], born May 10, 1859. John M. Lang served in the Civil War, including the battle of Vicksburg, and later moved to Roseville, Illinois.
Michael Lang was the son of Michael Lang, Sr. and Margaret Paul Lang. I imagine they are buried someplace in or near Pittsburgh, but I have never done any research on them. They had a daughter Catharine who married a Helfrich and a daughter Elizabeth who married a Straub. That family also engaged in brewing in Pittsburgh prior to the 20th century. There was supposed to have been a son, Henry, who went to California in the gold rush of 1849 and was never heard from again.
According to the sketch in Hardesty History, Elizabeth Yockey Lang was the daughter of Laurence and Elizabeth Brumbach Yockey. According to stories told me by my grandmother and Aunt Lot, Elizabeth Yockey lived near Miltonsburgh, and wanting a change of scene from rural to urban (probably she became tired of mil[k]ing cows all the time,) she walked to the river and took a boat for Pittsburgh, probably to visit some friends or relatives. It was there she met Michael Lang and married him. After living in that vicinity for a few years, she must have prevailed on him to move with her back to Monroe Co. They are both buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Woodsfield. The stone for Michael shows that he was born in Canton Neterbron, France, April 11, 1818, and died Mar. 21, 1896, and the stone for Elizabeth shows she was born Apr. 5, 1821, and died July 5, 1896. Their son, William is also buried there, b. July 10, 1849, died Feb. 26, 1890, and his wife, Margaret, born April 28, 1842, died May 20, 1925. He was a builder, and I seem to remember that he fell off the roof of a house he was repairing.
Elizabeth Yockey Lang met an untimely end too, as the horse she was driving down reservoir hill became frightened at something, and upset the carriage and she died of a broken neck.
Now if one is wondering at the apparent discrepancy between the birthplace on Michael's stone as Canton Neterbron, France, and the information in Hardesty's History as Alsace, Germany, one must again back-track to history. Alsace was a province that was the subject of much controversy between France and Germany, going back and forth between them much like a yo-yo. He was really a German but born in that province while it was under the domination of the French. I suspect that Canton Neterbron is part of the province of Alsace, although I have never checked this out either. The Michael Lang family lived in Woodsfield on the lot formerly the site of the Lucetta Keegan house, now owned by Supt. Devore, and later across the road from the Riley sub-division, on a farm formerly owned by the Belts and Okeys. There is a cave on that property which Roy Eddy and I once explored, probably used by Michael Lang to keep his beer cool. I have a beer glass that once belonged to him.
I have no idea when Michael Lang's parents came to this country, but tradition indicates he was about 9 years old at the time, or circa 1827. Stories in the Yockey family indicate that they probably came to this country in 1831.
To be continued.

BIOGRAPHY:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harringtonfamilies/BioSket_CentreTwp.htm#LangMichael
MICHAEL LANG ? is one of the leading farmers of Centre township, and an extensive raiser of stock; he is also engaged in brewing. He was born in Alsace, Germany, Apr 11 1818. He was married in Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 18 1841, to Elizabeth YOCKEY, who is a native of Rumbach, Germany, born Apr 5 1821. Their children are: Margaret E. ROSE, born in Pittsburgh, Apr 28 1842, resides in Riverside, IA; John H., born in Pittsburgh, PA, Sep 6 1843, resides at home; Anna M. SCHUMACHER, born in Fayette, Allegheny county, Jul 13 1847, resides in Woodsfield; William L., Jul 10 1849, resides in Woodsfield; Louis P., Oct 26 1851, resides in Centre township; Charlotte F., Aug 26 1855, resides at home; Catherine L., May 10 1859, resides at home; John H., Mr. LANG?s eldest son, was in the late war; he enlisted in Woodsfield. Mr. LANG?s parents, Michael & Margaret PAUL LANG, are both deceased. Laurence & Elizabeth BRUMBACH YOCKEY are the parents of Mrs. LANG; the formed died Nov 13 1874, the latter Nov 22 1877. Mr. LANG is at present trustee of Centre township, and has held the same office at intervals for eight years. His address is Woodsfield, Monroe county, OH.

Jean married Elisabetha Jacky on 18 Oct 1841 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Elisabetha (daughter of Lorenz Jacky and Elisabetha Brubach) was born on 5 Apr 1821 in Rumbach, Pfalz, Bayern; died on 5 Jul 1896 in Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phillip married Adelia Ann Craig. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]